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Meg
@megfawthrop.bsky.social
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Postgraduate researcher working on philosophy of mind and cognitive specifically panpsychism, IIT and human brain organoids.

Read my substack here: https://philosophicalmarginalia.substack.com/
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November 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I've been experiencing a crisis of self based on cosmopsychism and ego death, so I had to write about it because apparently that's what I do when I get worried by an idea.

This post is about Spinoza, cosmopyschism and a wonderful book called The End of Mr Y ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/philosop...
"the self is not a sealed container, but a window in a larger house of mind"
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Why is kafka so relatable?
November 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I've just written a new post about The End of Mr Y and Spinoza open.substack.com/pub/philosop...
We are everyone, we are no one: consciousness and god in the end of Mr y "Individual things are not nothing but modifications of the attributes of god, or are modes by which the attributes of god are expressed in a fixed and definite manner" - Spinoza
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I got a puzzle for free from my local library. Loads of pieces are missing and I feel that's basically a crime
October 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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My poster at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Studies Symposium (say that three times fast)
October 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I first read The End of Mr Y as an undergrad and have returned to it ever since. A novel where thought becomes world, and reading opens portals. On Philosophical Marginalia: panpsychism, language, and literary metaphysics.

philosophicalmarginalia.substack.com/p/thinking-r...
An image of the cover of The End of Mr Y. An old fashioned lamp in the centre casting out a yellow light that gradually changes to a dark red. In a circle around it is the title, the author and some recommendations in spidery writing. Over the top is the title of my post– Thinking reality: language, thought and mind if the world in The End of Mr Y
July 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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For international listeners, the journey that costs £130 is in black
July 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Why is it charging £130 to get from Croydon to Kings Cross? @nationalrail.bsky.social

#trains #publictransport #nationalrail
July 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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When you find an error in a certified clever person's work and need to check with a friend because you doubt yourself so much.

How do I stop the doubt?
An image of a quote from Colin McGinn with the word unstantiated showing as a spelling error A WhatsApp screenshot with the previous image and the following: Me: Unstantiated is not a word? Me: Is it? Me: I put (sic)? Them: an image of "mistake in philosophy of mind: classical and contemporary readings" unstantiated -> instantiated Them: Definitely put sic
June 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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February 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I'm on storygraph and love it. Just don't use fable
January 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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My latest amigurumi looking like the dad in Onward

#crochet #amigurumi
December 7, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
October 29, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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She's not like other girls

#booksky 📚💙 #readinf #books #twilight #twilightsaga
October 28, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 10
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
October 28, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 9
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
October 27, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 8
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
October 26, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 7
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
Sophie's world by Jostein Gaarder
October 25, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
His Dark Materials
October 24, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 5
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
October 23, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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Do people like foxes? Here's one that was just chilling on a wall and didn't run away from me when I walked past
October 23, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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Without downloading new pics what is it like dating you
October 23, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
A cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. This is the penguin classics cover with an illustration of Jane looking directly at us. She is wearing a brown dress and looks like she's sewing something
October 22, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 3
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
October 21, 2024 at 9:13 AM